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Please join us for this two-part conference that capitalizes on the synergy between the top ranked space-based recommendation of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey report and the burgeoning field of microlensing. The conference will begin with three days (Feb. 13-15) focusing on the scientific potential of observations with a wide-field infrared survey telescope in space to probe the nature of dark energy, conduct searches for exoplanets using gravitational microlensing, and as a facility for wide-area surveys. Starting with a joint session on Wednesday afternoon, the second half of the week (Feb. 15-17) will be the 16th in a series of conferences to discuss the latest results from microlensing searches and the perspectives opened by new methodologies and observational and computational facilities.

 

Speakers for Science with a Wide Field Telescope in Space

• Dave Bennett (University of Notre Dame)
• Mike Brown (California Institute of Technology)
• Joshua Frieman (University of Chicago)
• Scott Gaudi (Ohio State University)
• James Green (University of Colorado)
• Neil Gehrels (Goddard Space Flight Center)
• Jeffrey Kruk (Johns Hopkins University)
• Saul Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
• Adam Riess (Johns Hopkins University/Space Telescope Science Institute)
• Paul Schechter (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Brian Schmidt (Australian National University)
• Daniel Stern (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
• Michael Turner (University of Chicago)
• David Weinberg (Ohio State University)

 

Speakers for The 16th International Conference on Gravitational Microlensing

• Andrew Howard (UC Berkeley)
• Jon Jenkins (NASA Ames)
• Bruce McIntosh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)